Lots of great content today from the Solutions Center Stage at IMPACT 2011, including Robert Medrano of SOA Software, Inc. talking the state of SOA governance and John Burgos of Xebia Labs on automating deployment across the enterprise. Jerry Cuomo, IBM WebSphere CTO and IBM Fellow, closed our day out in style, talking about how he never could have imagined all that has grown out of a little application server he helped to create, called WebSphere. More Impact TV tomorrow from the General Sessions and Solutions Center stage with Rob High, Grady... [More]

Impact is conference #3 in the big five anchor conferences IBM puts on each year, and this one is centered around IBM WebSphere . Navigate to individual videos from Impact TV HERE . Day 1 included interviews with IBM Business Partners Perficient, iTKO, Miracle Software Systems, Haddon Hill Group, and PRAGMA, as well as with Tivoli Strategy and Development VP Jamie Thomas, and Tech TV journalist Katie Linendoll. IBM Technology Evangelist Todd Watson and I host the interviews and do a daily wrap-up. Here are our thoughts from Day 1. ... [More]

This Week on developerWorks! dW newsletters editor John Swanson joins me to talk about our planned coverage of Impact 2011 , #3 of the big five IBM conferences each year and the one centered around WebSphere . Impact starts Sunday in Las Vegas and runs through Thursday, ending with a WebSphere Unconference, hosted by Cloudcamp founder, Dave Nielsen . Dave joins to talk about the latest with cloud and what to expect on Thursday. (14:51) Download | Read the interview dW Podcast RSS feed | dW iTunes channel

Jenn Lim is CEO and Chief Happiness Officer of Delivering Happiness, a company that she and Tony Hsieh (CEO of Zappos ) co-created in 2010, to inspire happiness in work, community and everyday life. She talks about the metrics of happiness, shares stories from the Delivering Happiness tour , and explains their approach to social media at deliveringhappiness.com (8:06) Download | Read the interview dW Podcast RSS feed | dW iTunes channel

Ryan Koop and Patrick Kerpan of Cohesive Flexible Technologies , along with developerWorks’ Aimee Dean, join to talk about a joint publishing effort that won a Beacon Award runnerup honor for “Most innovative use of developerWorks to drive business results.” The article they discuss is " Deliver cloud network control to the user: See how using a virtual network can put the customer in control of cloud networking ". (11:59) Download | Read the interview dW Podcast RSS feed | dW iTunes channel

Just watched this brilliant video, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA , illustrating his case for hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace. I can envision some great discussions around this. Thoughts?

The tables were bound to turn eventually, so here I am being interviewed at SXSW Interactive about developerWorks. genConnect brings topic experts together with those looking for answers, utilizing social networking. And they love video. Here’s a quick 2.5 minutes on SXSWi, dW, and my role. video platform video management video solutions video player

Chief Investigator for IBM’s Deep QA/Watson Project . Dr. David Ferrucci , was in Austin, Texas for SXSWi 2011. He stopped to talk with Todd Watson (no relation) and I about Watson’s historic win on the Jeopardy game show and about what the project means to the developer community. Read the interview

Reading this blog post , and the comments, about Pepsi’s struggles with social media, reminds me of a lesson I learned early on as a musician. My inability to play a piece of music successfully, with precision and soul, was not the music’s fault. The song is a vehicle, a construct, an opportunity. What gets expressed through it is largely up to me. I think the evolution of the web into this experience we are calling social media can be and should be thought of in the same way. The possibilities unleashed by social media are undeniable with... [More]